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Fisher is the state’s first heritage dive site
But the problem with history books is they can be a little dry.
“I can read stuff all day long,” says John “Billy Ray” Morris. “But if you look at pic-tures
from the time period, they are usually black and white. History is in color. That
ocean today looks just like it did when that boat went down. The sky is the same color,
the ocean felt the same and tasted the same. It wasn’t some Currier and Ives painting. It
was the real deal.”
Team members with the North Carolina Underwater Archaeology Branch anchored over the shipwreck of
the blockade runner Condor which lies about 25 feet below the surface, less than 700 yards from the Fort
Fisher aquarium.
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